Hyundai Genesis: Rear-wheel drive? What!?

I'll take it!

Matt

Thee Chicago Wolf wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Hey!! How did you get pictures of my next car?? :-)

Seriously, it looks awesome. Hyundai, the title to my Sonata is ready to be signed over for one of these. Let's go already :-P

Eric

Well, I feel much the same, but I need to see the price tag first. I'm guessing 40 grand or better and I'm not sure I'll pony up that much for anything less than a Vette. Yes, I know a Vette is well over $40K, but it would be worth it!

Matt

Matt

From what I understand there will be two eng> Eric G. wrote:

I read someplace that it is supposed to be sub 40. They are going after Avalon and the cheap Caddy.

Thanks, but that isn't a REAL Vette. Only the Z06 counts for me! :-) If you find a Z06 new for $43K, please do let me know!!

Matt

So now Hyundai is going to join the ranks of manufacturers of overpowered gas-hogs? How utterly unimpressive!

Matt Whiting wrote in news:W0VVh.4025$ snipped-for-privacy@news1.epix.net:

Agreed about the Vette. The article from the OP speculated that the MSRP for the V8 would be around $35k, and around $30k for the V6.

Eric

Yeah, I guess the days of the cute, quirky value leader Hyundais are gone

Maybe their new motto should be "Hyundai, Just Another Car Company"

When is the Chinese stuff due to hit the US?

L.

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I haven't seen any power or MPG figures, have you? For a performance oriented car there is no such thing as too much power. And gas-hog is purely subjective.

Matt

Yes, it certainly looks that way! And all the people said "Amen!"

Matt

Next year from what my friend has told me. Funny thing though, I wonder if the very high gas mileage rating will carry over from China as well. Sure China makes Walmart and pretty much every other box-box filthy rich, but I wonder what they cars will be like. Probably fall apart after a couple days.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

Last I checked, rear-wheel drive was dropped by all auto-makers because it is horribly inefficient and wastes much more gas. I'm not sure which market Hyundai is trying to please exactly: The Muscle-car crowd? (Yeah right, a HYUNDAI muscle car. Uh huh.), the can't-afford-a-Shelby-mid-life-crisis-but-damn-is-my-warranty-good crowd, or the to hell with fuel economy and gas prices I want to peel out.........in my HYUNDAI. I'll give it props on the looks but rear-wheel drive is a non-starter and a dumb idea.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

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You are sadly misinformed. There is very little difference in efficiency between FWD and RWD, probably almost immeasurable. Where did you get that idea?

RWD is a great idea for a car oriented towards performance. FWD is a dumb idea for a performance car as you are asking two tires to provide traction for both acceleration and corning rather than balancing the forces between all four tires. That is why true performance cars such as BMW still use RWD.

Matt

All of what people?

The smart people.

Matt

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Oh puleeze! I'm not going to argue that restrictions should be placed on horsepower or anything like that, but it's long past time that people started being more realistic as to what's really necessary in a car. There is not a single valid argument for having more than 180-200 horsepower in a passenger car. It's one thing if you need a truck to haul or tow huge loads, but in passenger cars, it's simply frivolous and wasteful. If you want a toy, you can get all the performance you want in smaller, lighter cars that actually get decent gas mileage and don't cost a fortune, just ask Lotus.

Hardly. There is no excuse for passenger vehicles that can't get at least 25 mpg on the highway. There's also no excuse for wasting finite resources by driving oversize vehicles with huge engines.

It's long past time that gas guzzler taxes were reintroduced. Perhaps it's time for a horsepower tax, too. Put the money into development of alternative fuel technologies and we'll all be better off.

So if you can get 350 horsepower from an engine that gets 60 mpg, it should be taxed due to excessive horsepower? If you want alternative ideas, don't put a tax on them.

Wow, that is one of the most short sighted statements I've read in a long time. Since this is a Hyundai group, can I assume you drive a Hyundai? Do you recall the same thing being said (truthfully, I might add) about Hyundai in 1986? The first generation of Hyundai was crap. The Chinese are very capable of making a good product along with some of the junk we ask for. It will be interesting to see what shows up.